Publication! Text-Image Essay:”Vanishing Point: A Möbius Atlas” published in McSweeney’s.

I’m really, really happy about this one! My work has evolved to incorporate images,

I’ve recently been writing creative nonfiction and my emerging body of work, Going with Fergus, is comprised of multi-media essays, delivering ‘literary’ narrative through text, image, video, installation, and book arts.

In integrating images, it’s important to me that the visual aspects of the work aren’t secondary; rather, if I’m going to integrate visual element, I want them to be as necessary to conveying narrative as the text itself.

Form + Function in Book Arts

I wrote an essay about the years the dog and I spent driving back and forth across the country and called it Vanishing Point: A Mobius Atlas because there was never an end; we just kept going on this endless loop.

Even after the piece appeared in McSweeney’s, I still kept imagining it in the form of a handmade accordion that fastens into an actual möbius strip, the form echoing the essay’s elliptical content.

Relying on Scotch tape, refrigerator magnets, and Kinko’s coupons, I jury-rigged the essay into book form, but I’d love to learn actual bookmaking techniques!